Irene met Clark when she escaped the dust bowl in Southern California. After Clarks mum passed away in a hit-and-run accident, his mental health declined and he started whipping Irene more often as well as increasing the harshness of the abuse. Irene Wiley, Clarks wife was dependent on her husband due to neurological trauma and partial blindness due to a head injury she received when she was a child. Then, he would take her out and strap her to a potty chair while he force-fed her milk and pablum while whipping her if she made any noise.Ĭlark was the reason for his first childs death when he put her outside in the garage during winter because she was making too much noise. Genies dad, Clark Wiley was her abuser: Every day, he would go into the back room of the home where he kept his frail and innocent daughter locked up in a wire pen as if she was an animal. Unfortunately, this fascination they had with her mind had destructive consequences. Genie was incapable to communicate or voice what was going on within her psyche and shortly became the subject of several scientists fascination. The young girl that fled the clasps of her dad amazed the world with the amount of suffering and isolation she was urged to endure for her short life. When she was brought into a state facility building hunched over and walking with her hands in front of her like a bunny rabbit due to malnourishment, her mum and dad were imprisoned on child abuse charges.ĭespite being a teenager, she was so malnourished that she was the size of a six-year-old and could only make growling and barking noises. When Genie was thirteen, her mum eventually decided enough was enough and fled the house with Genie in tow. If she made any noise, she would be whipped with a wooden spoon he prohibited his six-year-old son and partially blind wife from speaking to her or touching her. Her dad refused to speak to her and would bark and growl at her to punish and further frighten her. Genie was raised by a mentally weak dad who, when she was twenty months old decided that she was mentally retarded and locked her away in a pitch-black room at the back of the home she was strapped to a potty chair almost twenty-four hours a day and was locked in a wired and lidded chicken coop the rest of the time. Genie Wiley is a name generally used amongst scientists researching abnormal child psychology due to her dreadful upbringing and the harmful effect it had on her ability to communicate and perceive the world around her.
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